MTG Salvation

I am going to miss its excellent AI drafting bots, the alternatives are nowhere near as good.

Cast your mind back to Ramunap Ruins it dominated standard so hard it had to be banned.

This card definitely looks good to me. having late-game insurance in red decks is critical.

Hey guys, it is perfectly fine to net deck. This is a common issue that occurs for mid-tier players that are transitioning from casual to competitive magic.
I get it, you are Johnny, you like to express yourself with your deck building, not everyone is like that, in competitive magic they are all Spikes and will play whatever wins. You have to decide what you care about more, winning or expression.

I say this as a Johnny that will spend months and years tuning a sub-optimal strategy to the maximum of its capability but I know that sometimes I am just going to get run over by a net deck and that's on me, not my opponent.

The only person with blame here is WotC for pushing mythic harder and harder until standard breaks and you can't play with a highly synergistic deck filled with uncommons.

I have a bunch of "cute" UR decks you can try out if you want to play something rouge.

Isn't it then important for us, the responsible people, not to blow this issue way out of proportion to prevent a hate mob from forming like this?

"A concern of many players is that these cards would not be widely available, and for some countries, only available through third-party sellers. They worry that this model will be repeated in the future. We’ve heard you loud and clear on this issue. Because the cards are mechanically unique, this is the major problem most folks have. We wish that all of our friends around the globe had access to these cards. However, the RC of its own accord can’t solve that problem. What we can do—what we already have done—is add our voice to yours. Since this issue broke, we’ve been in contact with well-placed people at Wizards of the Coast to make sure that they understand your displeasure and where it comes from, as well as urging that they work towards a solution."

The RC clearly understand what the problem is but they don't have the power inside WotC.

Release draft is tomorrow if I draft it maybe I'll see how it plays.
I reconnected with my cube players at prerelease, a combination of virus and work commitments meant I hadn't seen them in a while, I intend to give my cube a draft in another week.

I disagree, mono-coloured decks want as many basics as possible and then double their mana. I often comment "ah drew the best card in my deck" whenever I get a mountain in my mono-red deck haha.

the only exception is if you are using steal/clone effects and might steal a creature with an activated ability.

Quote from WarMachinePrime »

My government did its best to save businesses from the worst of the COVID. As I said earlier in the thread there is no COVID here, because the border is closed and all cases tracked and quarantined (currently 8 active). They also announced further financial aid For example: small businesses here get free electricity until September (from April) as we still have government-owned power utilities.

Perhaps you should petition your government for help for local small businesses.

We have had the CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Plan Act passed that combined is several TRILLION dollars of aid and low interest loans to small businesses. Some states have granted aid to small businesses as well. Our border is like Swiss Cheese with Mexico, covid travels freely into the country from the south and from air travel just about anywhere in the world. Western Australia I see has about 2.6 million people spread out over a HUGE area, with 2.0 million of that in Perth. (Basically a city and thousands of square miles of uninhabited bush country) Much easier for WA to contain and reduce over a population of 330 million concentrated in large cities all over the country.

Petitioning our government for help is about like pissing into the wind, near pointless as they do what they wish. And when they do something its slow and packed with pork riding legislation that increases the beuaracracy.

We lost 33% of our GDP in the second quarter. Shattering the record of the Great Depression. (Of the largest market on the planet) and we have over 26 TRILLION dollars in debt. Comparing Western Australia to the United States is like comparing raisins to grapefruit. Don't get me wrong, at this time I'd probably rather be living in rural Western Australia. Fixes here aren't simple.

I live in the capital city and I was talking about that, just the store that closed was in the country.

Federally sure politics is trash, ours isn't great but at least took COVID threat seriously since March. I am suggesting you go to your State and even local governments they are much more responsive to citizens. They need to keep their small business running or they might never recover.

How to stop the spread: 2 months lockdown, everything except supermarkets/pharmacies closed, 2 person groups only, mask orders. I am not sure if the USA constitution allows the closing of state boarders, but there needs to be people checking every single border and giving out 2 week stay at home orders.
Once you stop community spread you can start testing and carefully tracking sporadic outbreaks that will continue. locking down apartments and suburbs following the persons travel history to find where they got it from. Test and Track. just doing testing isn't enough you need to track where they got it from. The testing needs to be free or people won't get it done.
A further 2 months of slowly allowing more businesses to open and larger groups to meet.

The economy is just gone its too late to save it, forget it! save lives instead. You effectively need to hibernate the economy until the emergency is over. No rent, no rates, no power or water bills, no one gets fired but everything is closed. You need to have your local small business to still be there when you get out of lockdown so their bills need to go away until they can open. The economy is dead just go into however much debt is required to solve the problem, doing nothing or doing a huge amount are both bad but only once saves lives.

Why though?

I think these should be more like jumpstart where they are themed around something in Zenidkar.

Yeah, Salvage titan and Shamanic Revelation would have been nice downshifts and they are awful rares to pull in expensive packs.

The Release Notes for OTJ (found at this link: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/outlaws-of-thunder-junction-release-notes) say that at least one additional cost must be chosen to cast the spell.

Spree spells are modal spells and the lines given are modes. You must choose at least one mode of a modal spell as part of casting it.

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In: Reprieve out: midnight haunting I think I am the only person still playing this card.

This caught my eye as I am making the exact same swap. I think Midnight Haunting is still fine but not really necessary while I'm also cubing Spectral Procession, Battle Screech and Lingering Souls.

My other swaps are going to be:

In: Éowyn, Lady of Rohan Out: Militia Bugler I'm not 100% sure on this swap but I at least want to try out Éowyn as I do support a Boros Equipment deck. I like how she still does a thing if you don't have an equipped creature. I don't like how I find it a little tricky to see myself drafting and playing her in a non-Boros White deck. Maybe if you also draft a Barbed Spike or Citizen's Crowbar?

In: Meneldor, Swift Savior Out: Skyclave Aerialist I like Aerialist but I have quite a few 2-drop fliers in blue and I like the ones with Flash more (Faerie Vandal, Threnody Singer and Zephyr Sentinel. Meneldor is great in the Blink deck and should still be strong outside of it.

In: Grishnákh, Brash Instigator Out: Giant Cindermaw Cindermaw is cool but is just a generic beater. I like cards that give multiple bodies in Red and Grishnákh's instigation hits 61.7% of creatures in my cube (118/191 have power 2 or less and are not legendary).

In: Entish Restoration Out: Invasion of Zendikar I like Invasion of Zendikar a decent amount and it hasn't had enough time to truly settle in but I want to try out some more ways for Green to fill the Graveyard (and it especially helps Erinis, Gloom Stalker).

Quote from rancoredmalone »

Since (some of) y'all are cubing Midnight Haunting, I wonder if anyone looked at Shadow Summoning.
I want to check my own expectations here, but the card I kept thinking about is Expressive Iteration. No one runs Divination, but a fair number of people run a worse guild version of it at two mana.
People are playing Midnight Haunting (exactly 1 more person than plays Expressive Iteration, per the 2022 Cube Survey), so is doing a worse guild version at 2-mana interesting? And with everyone talking about Orzhov sac outlets, having multiple bodies also seems good too.
ETBT is a bummer and certainly matters in lots of situations. That said, it's a minor drawback on curve.

I definitely would not consider Expressive Iteration to have a worse effect than Divination. The selection it gives you is absolutely massive. Even if it cost 2U, it would still be a better card (IMO).

That being said, I don't hate Shadow Summoning and I think it's cubeable. But, I don't find it very exciting when Gold cards can be replicated by mono-coloured ones and have pretty basic effects.

I think the entire set is now spoiled with some massive leaks a few hours ago.

This is a good one:

Rally at the Hornburg
1R Sorcery
Create 2 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens. Humans you control gain haste until end of turn.

You could go the combat damage route with Ethereal Armor or All That Glitters.

This little critter is amazing, no?


- First of all, the text says "A GRAVEYARD", which suprised me. Its a combination of Dire Fleet Daredevil & Snapcaster Mage.

- 3/1 flyer for 3 is not a bad floor.

- Can be cast for 4 and efficiently flashback Fatal Push, Ponder, or even Reanimate.(Dimir is the reanimate color pair in my cube)

This feels like an autoinclude for me. What do you guys think?

I haven't seen any mention of this unless I missed it. White has great removal, but it's still worth pointing out.

With the off-color kickers, I think it would be fully fair to play a few additional guild slots for color-tinted cards. These could be hybrids, or cards with off-color activations and upsides. These cards aren't truly guild cards and don't tax a mana base as harshly. It's hardly the first time they've done this. With my bigger cube, I've marked color-tinted cards but I just let it go. Ancient Grudge is a red card and it's fine. But if (when) I build my next cube it will have color-tinted slots built in to the gold section. Every guild has good options.

So… I’m going out on a limb to predict that the blue wrath will 100% replace all destroyed creatures with phyrexian creature tokens (flavored as sleepers revealing themselves) as a sort of curse of swine type card.

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evergreen counter- double strike?

That one already exists

Double strike counter
Avenging Huntbonder (Commander 2020)
Kathril, Aspect Warper (Commander 2020)
Spectacular Showdown (Baldur's Gate)

My vote goes for Ward N counters

I have a budget Tatyova, Benthic Druid deck that I like to loan out. It's good for new players or bad players. It generates so much card advantage without being overly complicated to play. I mean, Simic landfall-draw a card is hard to screw up.